getting the SOA e-mail

[Mathias Koerber]

If people don't care enough about their DNS that they have lame servers,
do you think they willhave a working email address in the SOA record?
Experience shows that a large percentage of SOA contact emails addresses
belong to staff who long left the organization...
As such, i think this would be a waste of time and resources.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Kerbawy <john at MAKINTOSH.COM>
To: Lee Howard <faxguy at server.deanox.com>
Cc: bind-users at isc.org <bind-users at isc.org>
Date: Monday, June 05, 2000 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: getting the SOA e-mail


|Lee Howard wrote:
|: How do you extract the e-mail address found on the SOA line from somebody
|: else's server out there.  Will nslookup do this?
|:
|: You know what would be fun... if we had a script on our DNS servers that
|: replied to that e-mail whenever we encountered a lame server or a 'points
|: to a CNAME' error.
|
|Here's a little kludge that will extract the contact email address.
|
|% for i in `grep "Lame server on" /var/log/messages* | awk '{print $9}' |
|sed -e "s/'//g"` ; do nslookup -q=soa $i 2> /dev/null | grep "mail addr" |
|awk ' { print $4 } ' | sed -e 's/\./\@/' ; done
|
|A friend of mine pointed out a problem with this:
|
|What if the contact email address was ben.smith.cisco.com?
|It would be translated into ben at smith.cisco.com instead of
|ben.smith at cisco.com.
|
|Solutions to this problem other than a hostname lookup?
|
|Who in their right mind would put an email address like that in a SOA
|entry anyway? Do any exist?
|
|: So maybe they don't have their mail there... hmmm, would the consumed
|: bandwidth be worth it?
|
|I've thought about it many times, just never got around to writing a
|program to do it. :)
|
|: Lee Howard
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